Slightly OT, but has anyone else here seen "A Christmas Story"? Probably my all-time fave Christmas movie; it dances merrily on the grave of "It's A Wonderful Life", IMO! Anyway, this thread makes me think of how the aunt of "Ralphie", the film's 9-year-old protagonist, sends him a fuzzy, pink bunny suit for Christmas, complete with ears and feet, that is totally inappropriate for a boy his age. Ralphie makes it abundantly clear that he would rather stick cockroaches up his nose than wear it, but his mother orders him to "march" upstairs and put it on because "Aunt Susie always makes you such beautiful things and I won't have you disrespect her like that" or some such nonsense. Then when he slinks miserably down the stairs in it, his mom coos and fusses on about how "sweet" and "adorable" he looks. The mother's intentions are the very best, but the poor kid is utterly humiliated. The scene is funny, not only because he looks hilarious, but because we understand, and relate to, his resentment and his powerlessness in the face of his mother's cluelessness and the fact that ultimately, what mom says...goes.










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